ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,881, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cylinder cover, hydraulic cylinder, and working machine" was invented by Kazuyuki Hatta (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cylinder cover includes a body and a guide portion. The body is attached to a cylinder rod movable according to telescopic movement of a hydraulic cylinder. The body supported by the guide portion is slidable along the cylinder rod. The guide portion includes a guide plate provided on an outer circumference of a cylinder tube of the hydraulic cylinder to extend in a direction of tangent to an outer circumference of the cylinder tube...